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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2008-03-12 12:25:28 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2008-03-14 13:42:49 -0400
commit98a8e3239427051f5d44f2025b398bdcc3918f37 (patch)
treeaa3e6ba69dbf8575c2c6e10c013aa23d7d638af0 /fs/ramfs
parent5c691044ecbca04dd558fca4c754121689fe1b34 (diff)
SUNRPC: Add a helper rpcauth_lookup_generic_cred()
The NFSv4 protocol allows clients to negotiate security protocols on the fly in the case where an administrator on the server changes the export settings and/or in the case where we may have a filesystem migration event. Instead of having the NFS client code cache credentials that are tied to a particular AUTH method it is therefore preferable to have a generic credential that can be converted into whatever AUTH is in use by the RPC client when the read/write/sillyrename/... is put on the wire. We do this by means of the new "generic" credential, which basically just caches the minimal information that is needed to look up an RPCSEC_GSS, AUTH_SYS, or AUTH_NULL credential. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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